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TIL the London Metal Exchange is the last exchange in Europe to use Open Outcry trading (like films from the 90s where traders yelled deals at each other).

by whatilearned September 15, 2022, 1:10 pm

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TIL that John Ratcliffe (the bad guy in Pocahontas) was actually for trading with Native American Indians and was disliked for doing this by his fellow colonists. He was eventually killed by Native Americans though by being skinned alive from the feet up by mussel shells

by whatilearned August 26, 2022, 11:05 am

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Clark Kent looked ill when I invited him to our Bitcoin trading party after work.

by cringeyjokesman August 2, 2022, 5:16 am

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TIL Taito (the company behind Space Invaders) originally produced peanut vending machines and vodka when it was founded as Taito Trading Company in the early 1950’s.

by whatilearned July 26, 2022, 12:44 pm

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TIL During the American Revolutionary War the French had to defend their trading posts from the British since French allied themselves with the American colonists revolting against the British Empire, forcing Indians to fight amongst each other in India in a civil war over the trading posts.

by whatilearned July 20, 2022, 4:12 pm

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TIL Yu-Gi-Oh holds the Guinness World Record for top selling trading card game. As of January 2021, it is estimated to have sold about 35 billion cards worldwide.

by whatilearned July 8, 2022, 9:42 am

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Did King Alfonso V of Portugal send any military squadrons to fight the Ottomans in the 15th century? I ask because that was one of the deals made with Pope Nicholas V in order to get recognition of Portugal’s trading rights in Africa.

by HistoryBuff April 12, 2022, 11:55 am

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Are there any written accounts (in English) about life as a small merchant in a trading republic such as Venice

by HistoryBuff March 29, 2022, 10:01 am

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TIL that, during the Persian Gulf War, Topps made a trading card set depicting people and equipment on both sides of the conflict

by whatilearned March 19, 2022, 3:37 am

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TIL Canada has only sentenced one person, Stanko Joseph Grmovsek, to prison for insider trading. He was the first and only person in Canadian history to serve a Federal sentence of imprisonment for insider trading. He was sentenced to 39 months in prison.

by whatilearned March 2, 2022, 1:59 am

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TIL that the Pokemon Kadabra stopped appearing in the trading card games due to a lawsuit filed by magician Uri Geller in the early 2000s. Geller claimed that Nintendo based Kadabra on him because he also has a spoon-bending act and its Japanese name Yungeller sounds similar to his own.

by whatilearned February 11, 2022, 6:48 pm

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TIL Tim Burton was originally working on a movie based on the Dinosaurs Attack! trading cards, but switched to Mars Attacks! after the release of Jurassic Park.

by whatilearned February 8, 2022, 3:33 am

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